Middle East

SWC denounces plans to dress Gaza children in Nazi concentration camp uniforms

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) – The Simon Wiesenthal Center (“Center”), a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, devoted to the memory of the 6-million Jewish victims murdered in the Nazi Holocaust, denounced Hamas’ intention to dress up Friday’s Gaza border-riot participants as concentration camp victims. “We urge major international media outlets to reject this macabre and hideous ploy to defame the memory of the victims murdered in the Nazi genocide,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier, the Center’s […]

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Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Lawfare Project cites anti- Semitism of aid group

LONDON (Press Release)–The Lawfare Project and UK Lawyers for Israel on Wednesday filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The complaint outlines ways in which some of  MAP’s annual income of £5.4 million may have been spent for political propaganda rather than for its  stated purpose of providing medical

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International, Middle East

Study finds stress lowers sperm quality

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Prolonged stress, such as that experienced during military conflict, can have an adverse impact on sperm quality, according to a new study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel. The study, which was presented last week at the International Summit on

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Israel sends emergency aid workers to Guatemala

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala this week caused a serious humanitarian crisis, following which, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered humanitarian aid to the President of Guatemala Jimmy Morales. On Thursday morning, the Israeli delegation, including doctors, nurses and a Paramedic took off to Guatemala. “I am proud to be

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International, Middle East

Never too old to make Aliyah

JERUSALEM (Press Release)  – Chicago natives Devorah ‘Doris’ Levitz, 91, and Norman Levitz, 93, made Aliyah Wednesday at the Nefesh B’Nefesh office in Jerusalem. The couple has one son, Ephraim, living in Israel, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. From the time their son made Aliyah 40 years ago, Devorah and Norman have come to

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Middle East, USA

Hadassah identifies cells that make pregnancy easier

JERUSALEM (Press Release)  — Researchers at Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel have identified “natural killer cells” as a key component in answering the perplexing question as to why each subsequent pregnancy is easier and healthier than the first, according to Ellen Hershkin, President, Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization in America, Inc. (HWZOA). The study results, published

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jonathan Harris to direct IAC for Action

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—The Israeli-American Coalition for Action (IAC for Action) has named Jonathan C. Harris as its executive director. Harris will bring a deep expertise of Israel and Middle East policy—along with significant advocacy and lobbying experience in Washington, D.C.—to his role leading the IAC for Action team and implementing its advocacy agenda. Previously,

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Middle East, USA

U.S. should not deepen its involvement in Yemen

By Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is already militarily involved in Yemen, with special forces targeting al-Qaeda and Islamic State operatives who are then attacked by American drones.  Thus far, however, it has stayed mostly outside the Yemeni civil war, in which Iranian-backed Houthi forces are fighting the Saudi-UAE-supported Yemeni government, although there are reports that

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

UCLA disruption may lead to criminal charges

By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Disruptions of pro-Israel events by anti-Israel groups continue to intensify into physical aggression and violence across campuses and even into the community. As a result, Jewish and pro-Israel groups have started to explore the criminal aspects of such incidents. The invasion, disruption, and nose-to-nose intimidation of a May 17 Students

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Edwin Black, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Ben-Gurion U starts center for orphan diseases

BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — The first National Knowledge Center for the Study of Rare/Orphan Genetic Diseases has been established at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), in collaboration with Soroka University Medical Center and supported by the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology. The Center will advance research in rare genetic diseases by providing researchers with resources

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education